Sexual sites, seminal attitudes : sexualities, masculinities, and culture in South Asia /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Srivastava, Sanjay, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2004.
Series:Studies on contemporary South Asia ; [4].
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: semen, history, desire and theory / Sanjay Srivastava
  • Colonial aversions and domestic desires: blood, race, sex and the decline of intimacy in early British India / Sudipta Sen
  • Controlling the Ganymedes: the colonial gaze in J.R. Ackerly's Hindoo holiday / Zahid Chaudhary
  • Theatrical transvestism in the Parsi, Gujarati and Marathi theatres (1850-1940) / Kathryn Hansen
  • Rekhti: impersonating the feminine in Urdu poetry / Carla Petievich
  • Crossing 'lines' of subjectivity: the negotiation of sexual identity in Hyderabad, India / Gayatri Reddy
  • A preliminary report on emerging gay geographies in Bangladore, India / Chandra S. Balachandran
  • Emancipated bodies, embodying liberation: debating through Fire / Vikash N. Pandey
  • Redrawing the Lakshman Rekha: gender differences and cultural constructions in youth sexuality in urban India / Leena Abraham
  • 'Cheli-Beti' discourses of trafficking and constructions of gender, citizenship and nation in modern Nepal / Sushma Joshi
  • Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices: the social shadow of AIDS and STD prevention in Nepal / Stacy Leigh Pigg and Linnet Pike
  • Muscularity and its ramifications: mimetic male bodies in Indian mass culture / Kajri Jain
  • Non-Gandhian sexuality, commodity cultures and a 'happy married life': masculine and sexual cultures in the metropolis / Sanjay Srivastava.